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Mr. Alexander Fletcher
asked the Secretary of State for Trade if he will instruct the British Overseas Trade Board that in providing support for a shop floor representative of a company going on a trade mission, it shall no longer require that representative to be a trade unionist.
Mr. Meacher
The BOTB contribution towards the cost of a shop floor representative going on a trade mission is already not conditional upon the representative being a member of a trade union.